In 2001 one story dominates the headlines. Judith Kilshaw has gone from an unknown mother of four looking for any possible way to have another baby to the most hated woman in Britain.
The adoption scandal dominates the news in both the UK and the US. Two families are fighting fiercely for the twins to live with them. Initially the general public seems to be on the side of Californian couple Vickie and Richard Allen.
The British courts will determine the fate of the twins and if they stay in the UK or are returned to their hometown. Determined to get her twins out of foster care the birth mother Tranda decides she will enter the fight.
